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| schestowitz-pi | trying to assess what to cover next regarding github | Feb 13 03:13 |
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| schestowitz-pi | github series 38+39... | Feb 13 03:13 |
| schestowitz-pi | more statcounter stuff MIGHT be interesting, I'll give that a look first | Feb 13 03:13 |
| techrights[sec] | Interesting, when searching StartPage for "github layoffs" it recommends | Feb 13 03:15 |
| techrights[sec] | correcting the search query to "gitlab layoffs" instead | Feb 13 03:15 |
| techrights[sec] | Apparently they will also fire people, about 7% or 130 employees | Feb 13 03:15 |
| techrights[sec] | I guess steer people to src.ht and the others | Feb 13 03:15 |
| schestowitz-pi | sourcehut has issues too | Feb 13 03:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | maybe not codeeberg | Feb 13 03:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | sourcehut wants money from projects it previously hosted for free | Feb 13 03:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | and it does mass censorship of projects, starting with "crypto" | Feb 13 03:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | everything devault doesn't fancy | Feb 13 03:16 |
| techrights[sec] | m$ has money (or at least pretends to) for its LLM chatbot: | Feb 13 03:17 |
| techrights[sec] | https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/02/10/github-to-layoff-10-of-global-workforce-in-latest-tech-cuts/ | Feb 13 03:17 |
| techrights[sec] | m$ github will close all offices: | Feb 13 03:17 |
| techrights[sec] | https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/tech-layoffs-microsoft-owned-github-to-shed-10-employees-wi | Feb 13 03:17 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.forbes.com | Github To Layoff 10% Of Global Workforce In Latest Tech Cuts | Feb 13 03:18 | |
| techrights[sec] | ll-close-all-offices/articleshow/97798728.cms | Feb 13 03:18 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/tech-layoffs-microsoft-owned-github-to-shed-10-employees-wi ) | Feb 13 03:18 | |
| techrights[sec] | including hq | Feb 13 03:18 |
| schestowitz-pi | wow! | Feb 13 03:18 |
| schestowitz-pi | maybe another part is in order then | Feb 13 03:18 |
| schestowitz-pi | iirc, gitlab is remote [sic] work based for years already | Feb 13 03:18 |
| schestowitz-pi | draft | Feb 13 03:36 |
| schestowitz-pi | i could ask people inside intel, but maybe not a priority atm | Feb 13 03:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | (tbh) | Feb 13 03:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | pensions, github, other stories more important to us | Feb 13 03:44 |
| techrights[sec] | checking | Feb 13 03:45 |
| techrights[sec] | might want to restate the trend noticed two days ago, in addition to the link | Feb 13 03:45 |
| techrights[sec] | there are otherwise too many links to click on randomly and the text | Feb 13 03:45 |
| techrights[sec] | needs to convey the message anyway for Gemini | Feb 13 03:45 |
| techrights[sec] | The paragraph about Sirius needs a tie-in to the main part of the post, at least | Feb 13 03:45 |
| techrights[sec] | a sentence connecting its relevance to the GitHub layoffs or office closings | Feb 13 03:45 |
| techrights[sec] | s/going to do./going to do?/ | Feb 13 03:45 |
| techrights[sec] | ' | Feb 13 03:45 |
| schestowitz-pi | i will graft it back onto kate and reword more patiently | Feb 13 03:46 |
| schestowitz-pi | no need to hurry in this vase | Feb 13 03:46 |
| schestowitz-pi | *case | Feb 13 03:46 |
| schestowitz-pi | not an exclusive | Feb 13 03:46 |
| schestowitz-pi | the other day you mentioned nokia dn yahoo | Feb 13 04:01 |
| schestowitz-pi | what was the third one you mentioned? | Feb 13 04:01 |
| schestowitz-pi | i forgot | Feb 13 04:01 |
| techrights[sec] | LF ? OLTP was killed by M$ too | Feb 13 04:01 |
| techrights[sec] | That was well documented at the time but those articles are irretrievably in | Feb 13 04:01 |
| techrights[sec] | the past now and buried by the search engines and chaff | Feb 13 04:01 |
| schestowitz-pi | i soemtimes find myself wondering what % of ddos is due to open port, default password | Feb 13 04:13 |
| schestowitz-pi | internet of shit and what % is windows | Feb 13 04:13 |
| schestowitz-pi | we know internet of shit, bsd and linux, has like 10 times more market share than windows by now | Feb 13 04:13 |
| schestowitz-pi | as i no longer use google anything (not even youtuve or invidious) to identify news | Feb 13 04:13 |
| schestowitz-pi | i don't know if the fud nearly stopped or i'm just not seeing it | Feb 13 04:13 |
| schestowitz-pi | maybe it's for the better, even if the latter | Feb 13 04:13 |
| techrights[sec] | Windows botnets are being constantly used for DDoS attacks to hassle various | Feb 13 04:14 |
| techrights[sec] | web sites. There are many articles about DDoS, basically some every day. | Feb 13 04:14 |
| techrights[sec] | However, they all try to make it sound mysterious and unavoidable rather than | Feb 13 04:14 |
| techrights[sec] | point out the central role that M$ plays in enabling such attacks. | Feb 13 04:14 |
| techrights[sec] | Some of that might be marketing in order to promote the clownflare surveillance\ | Feb 13 04:14 |
| techrights[sec] | engine and other activity monitoring methods. | Feb 13 04:14 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | Android up to 45% of ALL market share, Windows down to 27% this month https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-201802-202302 | Feb 13 04:24 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gs.statcounter.com | Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats | Feb 13 04:24 | |
| schestowitz-TR2 | gs.statcounter.com | Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats | Feb 13 04:24 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | Microsoft Edge market share fell 5% this month, IN SPITE of all the media SPAM from Microsoft https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-201802-202302 Edge staff being laid off, too | Feb 13 04:24 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gs.statcounter.com | Browser Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats | Feb 13 04:24 | |
| schestowitz-TR2 | gs.statcounter.com | Browser Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats | Feb 13 04:24 |
| schestowitz-pi | going to run the new script now | Feb 13 04:25 |
| schestowitz-pi | on the whole list of feeds, the 1000+ entries opml file | Feb 13 04:26 |
| schestowitz-pi | just recorded 3 videos for three articles | Feb 13 06:05 |
| schestowitz-pi | mostly good news today | Feb 13 06:05 |
| schestowitz-pi | all videos are good news | Feb 13 06:05 |
| schestowitz-pi | for a change | Feb 13 06:05 |
| schestowitz-pi | [07:41] <schestowitz-TR2> "After almost 3 years, the PussTheCat.org Nitter instance has been shut dow | Feb 13 08:08 |
| schestowitz-pi | n permanently." | Feb 13 08:08 |
| techrights[sec] | ack | Feb 13 08:08 |
| schestowitz-pi | 2 drafts | Feb 13 08:09 |
| schestowitz-pi | videos processing | Feb 13 08:09 |
| schestowitz-pi | had kitchen incident again today, due to forgetting I was boiling water there | Feb 13 08:09 |
| schestowitz-pi | no big deal, but some burned finger, wasste of time, waste of energy | Feb 13 08:10 |
| schestowitz-pi | i will always set a timer from now on | Feb 13 08:10 |
| techrights[sec] | Timer is essential. It's seldom needed but the times it actually is needed | Feb 13 08:15 |
| techrights[sec] | it is irreplaceable. | Feb 13 08:15 |
| techrightssec | There are also the old style whistling kettles | Feb 13 09:13 |
| techrightssec | or at least there used to be. | Feb 13 09:13 |
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| schestowitz-TR2 | Credentialism and the Fate of Academia ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/13/credentialism-and-the-fate-of-academia/ | Source: Counter Punch | Feb 13 11:44 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Credentialism and the Fate of Academia - CounterPunch.org | Feb 13 11:44 | |
| schestowitz-pi | [long] | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | something occured to me this morning | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | as a longtime and well off editor from the 90s contacted me and wishes to meet in person | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | writing books is rather pointless these days, as people barely buy books like they used to | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | [reasons... does not matter, that's how it is] | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | when it comes to www sites, much of the same is becoming true | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | [reasons... does not matter, that's how it is] | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | 20 years ago a decent news site could get an article read many times, but not anymore | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | no matter the quality | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | imagine spending months researching something, only for a small audience | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | so those jobs seem to have passed | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | sjvn does not even write much in his new (latest) site | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | he had many, they failed | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | glaymoody also keeps swapping platforms | Feb 13 11:48 |
| schestowitz-pi | as does cory doctorow | Feb 13 11:49 |
| schestowitz-pi | turns out his wife is his editor | Feb 13 11:49 |
| techrights[sec] | People rarely buy books because so few can read long form any more and don't | Feb 13 11:53 |
| techrights[sec] | have the ability to concentrate enough to do it. Then most of the rest don't | Feb 13 11:53 |
| techrights[sec] | have any time because of lots of unpaid overtime, commuting, etc. | Feb 13 11:53 |
| techrights[sec] | 20 years ago there was not enough time in the day to even read through the | Feb 13 11:53 |
| techrights[sec] | headlines let alone the articles. That's why the site Slashdot, prior to sale, | Feb 13 11:53 |
| techrights[sec] | flourished. It acted as a filter for quality and relevance, plus allowed for | Feb 13 11:53 |
| techrights[sec] | some commentary and discussion. M$ and related interests hated it and fought | Feb 13 11:53 |
| techrights[sec] | it for years but then were able to purchase it outright and gut it, leavig | Feb 13 11:53 |
| techrights[sec] | the husk for spam and such. After one such sale it was used to point people to | Feb 13 11:53 |
| techrights[sec] | the propaganda and disinformation service "Reddit" | Feb 13 11:53 |
| schestowitz-pi | this is at least partly a political and societal issue, not tech and www issue | Feb 13 11:58 |
| schestowitz-pi | i honesty do not know a solution to it | Feb 13 11:58 |
| schestowitz-pi | i am powerless to change it | Feb 13 11:58 |
| schestowitz-pi | and it's not my role to change it, we're all cogs | Feb 13 11:59 |
| schestowitz-pi | having said that, doing what's right on one's own is often fine | Feb 13 11:59 |
| schestowitz-pi | the system gravitates towards crippling anything that MIGHT channelnge it | Feb 13 11:59 |
| schestowitz-pi | like the golden era of "leaky" web, they had to crush sites like wikileaks | Feb 13 11:59 |
| schestowitz-pi | and to caution others who thought about replicating the success of manning and snowden | Feb 13 11:59 |
| schestowitz-pi | putin doesn't take "this shit" at all | Feb 13 11:59 |
| schestowitz-pi | you get in trouble the moment you show lack of "gratitude" to the regime -- same as tehran and beijing | Feb 13 11:59 |
| techrights[sec] | And Usenet before that. | Feb 13 11:59 |
| schestowitz-pi | i have meanwhile found another decent instance of nitter | Feb 13 12:05 |
| schestowitz-pi | there are too many of them to destroy them all (at the moment) | Feb 13 12:05 |
| schestowitz-pi | i have my 'theory' about why twitter can stay online while cops/courts target the relay/s | Feb 13 12:05 |
| schestowitz-pi | the way i look at it, if you poke something with a stick, don't expect a lack of response | Feb 13 12:05 |
| schestowitz-pi | slapp, threats to that effect, smears, swatting, doxxing | Feb 13 12:05 |
| schestowitz-pi | in myanmar they even doxx critics with sex tapes now | Feb 13 12:05 |
| techrights[sec] | It's a rhetorical question but why are the authorities not stomping on twitter | Feb 13 12:06 |
| techrights[sec] | but only on the nitter mirrors? | Feb 13 12:06 |
| techrights[sec] | KSA | Feb 13 12:06 |
| schestowitz-pi | the simplest explanation might be, they use twitter as a honeypot | Feb 13 12:07 |
| schestowitz-pi | not necessarily adding cp to it | Feb 13 12:08 |
| schestowitz-pi | but using what's there to harvest ips | Feb 13 12:08 |
| schestowitz-pi | with nitter it can become trickier | Feb 13 12:08 |
| schestowitz-pi | it is rerouted indirectly, via some node | Feb 13 12:08 |
| schestowitz-pi | matt dehart was accused of cp something | Feb 13 12:08 |
| schestowitz-pi | iirc, he just ran some tor node | Feb 13 12:08 |
| schestowitz-pi | and some anthrax related stuff came through it | Feb 13 12:08 |
| techrights[sec] | And to control the narrative and steer discussion and set public opinion one | Feb 13 12:09 |
| techrights[sec] | way or another. | Feb 13 12:09 |
| schestowitz-pi | i only use nitter to observe mentions of domains of words | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | to bypass the noise | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | but tbh, twitter feels more and more dead over time | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | people flock away | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | it's a "downward spiral" | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | nitter might be obsolete in a few years | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | let's hope invivious will be too | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | due to google blocking my rss feed requests I've not received any updates | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | about youtube channels for weeks | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | seeing what happened to youtube, maybe it's better this way | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | that just mostly means fewer links to videos | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | they never break news anyhow | Feb 13 12:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | i know we needed to change, and that time was at the essence | Feb 13 12:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | as finding meaningful, original news was getting hard even months ago | Feb 13 12:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | banal news cycles, like LF and linux.com, put people off | Feb 13 12:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | we need toi attract sources | Feb 13 12:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | for 60 days I was the source to myself, but after 12 years | Feb 13 12:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | notice how almost nobody in media, lest foss sites, mentioned what happened to github | Feb 13 12:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | and the ramifications | Feb 13 12:16 |
| schestowitz-pi | liam dawe and boiling steam become catalogues of drm (most games), phoronix is mailing list and PR | Feb 13 12:18 |
| schestowitz-pi | commentator, foss force is still not sure what it is, marius tracks new releases mostly | Feb 13 12:18 |
| techrights[sec] | Shutting down Github was an evenutality once the sale to M$ looked likely to | Feb 13 12:21 |
| techrights[sec] | go through. Indeed it serves m$ goals anyway to do so even if they to what | Feb 13 12:21 |
| techrights[sec] | damage they can on the way out. | Feb 13 12:21 |
| schestowitz-pi | btw, one of the videos today devotes about a minute explaining that msfters needs to retrain | Feb 13 12:21 |
| schestowitz-pi | and why spreading microsoft elsewhere would be damaging | Feb 13 12:21 |
| schestowitz-pi | if nobody covers those things, fine, but it does need to be said | Feb 13 12:21 |
| techrights[sec] | Maybe that 1 minute can be expanded into a post? | Feb 13 12:23 |
| techrights[sec] | ^ topic ? | Feb 13 12:23 |
| techrights[sec] | msfters can't retrian they lack both the aptitude and the skill set; It'd be | Feb 13 12:23 |
| techrights[sec] | one thing if they were staring from noll but the way they are, it'd take decades | Feb 13 12:23 |
| techrights[sec] | for them to unlearn the mistakes and trash they have taken to heart. | Feb 13 12:23 |
| techrights[sec] | The mindset behind the m$ products is anathema to being able to work with | Feb 13 12:24 |
| techrights[sec] | computers in a constructive and meaningful way. The higher they rise and the | Feb 13 12:24 |
| techrights[sec] | more senior they become, the more distant they get from IT proper. | Feb 13 12:24 |
| techrights[sec] | IT as in the stuff which built the Internet, Usenet, and then WWW 1.0 and even | Feb 13 12:24 |
| techrights[sec] | to a limited extent 2.0 | Feb 13 12:24 |
| schestowitz-pi | what is web2? js? | Feb 13 12:27 |
| techrights[sec] | Not the JS part, it was still server-side for the most part back then. | Feb 13 12:32 |
| techrights[sec] | Now the server component is negligible and it merely feeds GB of javascript | Feb 13 12:32 |
| techrights[sec] | to clients in the form of web "apps" instead of actual pages. | Feb 13 12:32 |
| techrights[sec] | Yes it is already mostly replaced by web "app" served over HTTP. | Feb 13 12:32 |
| techrights[sec] | When HTTP/3 arrives, the web will be officially dead, IMHO. HTTP/3 retains | Feb 13 12:32 |
| techrights[sec] | no beneficial aspects. | Feb 13 12:32 |
| schestowitz-pi | seeing what happens in fb (moments ago), seems www is going away in SOME sense | Feb 13 12:33 |
| schestowitz-pi | geminispace too has been relatively quiet lately | Feb 13 12:33 |
| schestowitz-pi | not dead, just quieter | Feb 13 12:33 |
| schestowitz-pi | it's a good thing we managed to save while "techbubble" and fututeHopes(TM) (debt) were | Feb 13 12:33 |
| schestowitz-pi | still there | Feb 13 12:33 |
| schestowitz-pi | so someone else is left holding the bag | Feb 13 12:33 |
| schestowitz-pi | do you want to proofread portions of andy's upcoming book? it covers some of these themes | Feb 13 12:34 |
| techrights[sec] | It would be interesting, I'm not sure how much I could contribute though | Feb 13 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi | Re: GitHub to Shut Down All Offices, Including Its Headquarters | Feb 13 12:38 |
| schestowitz-pi | > I’m sure they’re losing a lot of hosting contracts right now | Feb 13 12:38 |
| schestowitz-pi | from reasonably informed source. | Feb 13 12:43 |
| schestowitz-pi | i think this, along with news of msft layoffs, should be cause for celebrating in the foss | Feb 13 12:43 |
| schestowitz-pi | "community" (it exists, but suppressed) | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | the other day i noticed that in recent weeks TR video got a major boost in b/w | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | i don't track per page/post | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | but it's good to know even historic material comes in handy for some | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | os even if i post nothing on a given day, that does not mean nothing read | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | i've relayed the email to andy | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | it's like reading the book one chapter at a time | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | with a chance to suggest changes before it's final | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | books are yesterday's "trophies" | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | when distribution was done by dead tree medium | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | or radio, tv, airwaves | Feb 13 12:44 |
| schestowitz-pi | andy is like a tehc ethicist | Feb 13 12:50 |
| schestowitz-pi | not this "hey hi" (bs, buzzword) "ethicist" | Feb 13 12:50 |
| schestowitz-pi | and has lots of time to think how to put the situation in words | Feb 13 12:50 |
| schestowitz-pi | there is no obligation to give feedback, but it is possible | Feb 13 12:50 |
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| schestowitz-pi | just ran grep for webm, mp4, ogg, past 4 weeks | Feb 13 13:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | about 140k requests | Feb 13 13:11 |
| schestowitz-pi | actually, 3 weeks+1 day, seems the past week was higher too | Feb 13 13:12 |
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